Overview: Watching television can be hazardous to your health ... and bring the end of the world! There’s a scary movie on television and the residents of a luxury high-rise apartment building have their eyes glued to their sets. Unfortunately for a young birthday girl, an eternal demonic evil is released through her TV and partygoers soon find themselves fighting an army of murderous monsters!

Acid blood, demonic dogs, possessed children and rampaging zombies wreak havoc on the trapped tenants! As more and more people are infected and transformed into blood-thirsty demons, a young couple fights to survive as they try to escape hell on earth! From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes Demons 2, the sequel to the surprise horror masterpiece, Demons!

Starring Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (Dario Argento’s Opera), Bobby Rhodes (Demons), and Asia Argento in her very first film role, Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2 is a jaw-droppingly gory fright-fest from the golden age of Italian splatter films!

Features an amazing soundtrack of 80’s alternative/new wave music by The Smiths, The Cult, Dead Can Dance, Art of Noise, Peter Murphy and MORE!

4K UHD Blu-ray Verdict: Italian Horror icon, Lamberto Bava’s grisly Demons rigorously revivified horror in the mid-’80s no less emphatically than fellow movie maestro, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator, so a splattery sequel was inevitable. Just like AC/DC, you have to create something ostensibly new to appease loyal fans, but resolutely keeping the winning formula intoxicatingly undiluted.

Audaciously, the prodigiously talented, Lamberto Bava not only successfully maintains the hyperbolic hysteria that abounded so phantasmagorically in the original, Bava miraculously ups the day-glow demented ante! The spectacularly slime-slathered, skin-shredding sequel is an outrageously gruesome, pyrotechnically perverse explosion of deliriously demonized death dealing that should satisfy the hardiest of splatter mad hatters!

In an austere, Ballardian, seemingly impregnable Tower Block a broad demographic of characters have their upwardly mobile lives diabolically descended into brutal, carotid-shredding torment by the Videodrome-esque return of exquisitely evil, permanently pus-seeping, razor-toothed, gut-guzzling demons!

The innocent-looking birthday party for pretty protagonist, Sally Day (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni), a singularly overwrought young lady, is to be ghoulish ground zero for the feral flesh-filleting, bravura body-melting carnage that gorily ensues after her polite soirée is impolitely crashed by a maniacal, plague-bearing fiend!

Once this eldritch contagion spreads rapidly throughout the demon-besieged building, Demons 2 unleashes a fantastically gory display of deliciously demented deviltry that no horror fan should miss.

Demons 2 (1986) remains a jawsome ’80s blockbuster, in my humble opinion. The production values are exemplary, the garish, neon-splashed aesthetic and gruesomely realized creatures make for horrific-looking hell-raisers. No one watches lurid Italian horror films for the nuanced acting, I shall therefore bestow deserved, Neon-hued praise upon the many innovatively shriek-inducing, plasma-soaked set pieces.

The sepulchral, Gothrock-enshrouded score also works remarkably well and the uproariously welcome return of the eternally bellicose, magisterially moustachioed, sleek-headed figure of cult demon-killer, Bobby Rhodes was a marvel to behold once more! [W.W.]

SPECIAL FEATURES:
Newly remastered in 4K from the original camera negative in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English 5.1 & Italian 5.1/2.0 audio mixes derived from the original archival audio masters
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English 2.0 true stereo theatrical mix
New audio commentary by film critic Travis Crawford
Bava to Bava: interview with Luigi Cozzi on the history of Italian horror
Creating Creature Carnage: interview with Sergio Stivaletti
Demonic Influences: Federico Zampaglione Speaks
The ‘Demons’ Generation: Roy Bava discusses a legacy in lacerations
The New Blood of Italian Horror featuring Sergio Stivaletti
Screaming for a Sequel: The Delirious Legacy of Demons 2 with Lamberto Bava
A Soundtrack for Splatter: interview with composer Simon Boswell
Together and Apart: a new visual essay on the space and technology in Demons and Demons 2 by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Original Italian and English theatrical trailers
Newly translated optional English SDH subtitles for the English version
Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian version

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